Category «Personal Journal»

I don’t know what to do. On Monday I had a stroke. I’m 40 years old and I had a stroke. What am I supposed to do? I don’t know if this is how everyone feels… but these are the thoughts that keep running through my head: I feel like a California seismologist, I’m just …

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Dear Congressman Wittman, I wanted to share with you how the government shutdown is effecting my family and hopefully bring you a personal level insight on this issue. Both my husband and I are government contractors. My husband supports FBI training operations and I support national security. Both of us have been told by our …

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It’s now 8 AM on the east coast of the United States and I’ve known for only 15 minutes now that Karrie Steinmetz (aka KnitPurlGurl) passed away yesterday. To say I am in shock is an understatement. The journey that I took with Karrie is one that I’m sure most of you will recognize. Although …

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I am excited today… why? Several reasons… 1. I published my first real design last night to Ravelry. I had some wonderful volunteers that test knit my design and even took some incredible pictures. I named it the Three Willows Cowl… 2. I record the pre-turkey version of The Knitting Game this afternoon. I always …

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So I’m getting ready for a 5K “Fun” run on Thanksgiving. My husband and I ran the turkey trot last year, but I was about 20 pounds lighter than I am today. Given that I will be carrying around some extra weight, I decided to start my training early. I started with one of the …

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OK, so when it’s October and you go outside at 4 AM, it’s not supposed to be 70 degrees with almost 100% humidity… at least not in the northern hemisphere. So that’s why I wrote this breakup letter to summer… Dear Summer, I think we need to take a break for a while. I …

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For longer than I can remember, my husband, children and I have been helping a friend with his charity organization. Totally Committed Community Outreach Center (TCCOC) is an organization dedicated to helping the homeless and disadvantaged in the Washington, D.C. area, and international crisis areas, with food, clothing and other needs such as clean water, …

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And so it begins… The Monday after a football game is always interesting. Fans of one team or another continue to arm-chair coach the “what I would have done” scenarios well into the morning. The Monday after the Super Bowl however, is an epic battle between fans rejoicing in “their” team’s victory, or debating why …

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Ok, so forever and more than a decade I’ve been pixie91075 everywhere, but now I’m thinking of maybe changing my online persona. I’m having a really tough time making this decision. This morning I changed my Raverly name to PixieKnitsDesigns. When I gifted my knitted projects for Christmas I tagged everything as being “Handmade by …

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I’ve been putting together a studio for a lack of a better word. A place that I can work on my spinning, knitting and sewing. I got everything setup over the summer, and now it’s also become my photography studio too. I didn’t realize how much I was going to want to take pictures of …